Folk tales - Mother Tongue

Bukhara

Tashkent

Proverbs and folktales

Caucasus

Mountain Jews (Dagestan)

Daday Ul: story of a witch

Mordechai ʾAvshalom's story

Tree fairy tale

Egypt

Cairo

Europe: Western

Izmir

Folk tales in Judeo-Spanish

Folktales and Passover Haggada

Jerusalem-Sephardic women's stories and customs

Milan

Folk tales in Judeo-Spanish

Folktales and Passover Haggada

Jerusalem-Sephardic women's stories and customs

Georgia

Oni

India

Chennamangalam

The man who waited for the messiah

Ernakulam

The man who waited for the messiah

Male

The man who waited for the messiah

Iran

Arak

Parable about parents and children

Golpayegan

Parable about parents and children

Isfahan

Tale of the murder of the Rabbi and the guarding of the serpent on his grave

Sanandaj

Shahandasht

Folk love story

Shiraz

Story about a non-Jew

Story about the non-Jew at the grocery store

Teheran

Tale of the murder of the Rabbi and the guarding of the serpent on his grave

Iraq

Baghdad

A mother's fable

Folktale: Juḥa in the middle of the sea

Tale of a neighborhood thug

Tale of an angry man

Tale of guards caught stealing

Tale of Jewish merchant and Muslim buyer

Tale of the Jew who whispered to a donkey

Tale of the man and his nightshirt

Tale of the man and the porter

Tale of the merchant who befriended the angel of death

Tale of the old man who bequeathed all his property in his life

Tale of the old mother who was asked for her hand

Tale of the rich man who used to exaggerate

Tale of the sheikh and the king's son

Tale of the son who hit his mother

The Jew and the Jugs

The value of salt

Baqubah

A mother's fable

Tale of an angry man

Tale of the man and the porter

Israel

Peqi'in

Tale of Rabbi Yossi the righteous

Kurdistan

Amedi

Ḥacham Shimʿon and a story about the murder of a rabbi

Baghdad

My father's stories

Proverb of a bride who serves her mother-in-law meat that turns into a frog

Barzan

Story about a donkey (Barzan dialect)

Visit at the Ḥacham (sage of Talmud)

Betanure

The Loss of the Mule

The Beggar

The Donkey

The Fool and the Fleas

The Fool Who Thought He was Dead

The Lashes

The Marriage of the Patriarch

The Servant, the Duck and the King

The Shepherd Who Thought He was Dead

The Stolen Donkey

Who Lends a Donkey?

Challa

Sufi Abraham, the prayer rug, and the Hajj

The Agha takes what he wants

Duhok

My father's stories

Proverb of a bride who serves her mother-in-law meat that turns into a frog

Hasnaka

Love song and story

Mosul

Legend of the river and its bridge

Qapʾachʾan

Children's tales and songs

Sandor

Love song and story

Sulaymaniya

Fable

Fable about the Indian Jewry and an incorrect reading of the Bible

Fables

Harun al-Rashid stories

Jew builds a mosque

Passover fables

Zakho

Folk tales and women's lamentations

Folk tales, lamentations and family stories

Harun al-Rashid asks a riddle

Legend of the river and its bridge

Story about a donkey (Barzan dialect)

Story of a wise king

The Jew and the Priest

Visit at the Ḥacham (sage of Talmud)

Lebanon

Beirut

His grandfather's story about a peddler, a donkey, general Gouraud and his son

Beirut (Wadi Abu Jamil)

Story about a woman and her husband

Libya

Msallata

A folk tale that opens with a formulaic statement and ends with a proverb

Juḥa stories: the door of the house and the chickens

Stories of demons: encountering and identifying a Ghoul demon

The three sources of flesh and the sultan's advice and the recitation

Tripoli

Tale of the Sultan and the loaf of bread

The Rabbi Kamos Yamin ZT"L story and the Ziyarat in his honor

Morocco

Asilah

Casablanca

Holidays and folk tale

Debdou

Stories: naming Esther and a story of a scarf and an iron

Inezgane

Folk tale about a beautiful girl with long hair

Marrakesh

Mogador (Essaouira)

Folk tale

Ouarzazate

Syria

Aleppo

Folktale: an eagle testifies for the murder of a Jew

Damascus

Children's songs and Red Riding Hood (Layla Wa Dib)

Israel

Folktale: an eagle testifies for the murder of a Jew

Nusaybin

Folktale: an eagle testifies for the murder of a Jew

Tunisia

Djerba

A tale of a poor man

A tale of a rich man

Gabes

The Sultan and the peasant's daughter

Sousse

Boy and girl romance (recitation)

Tunis

Turkey

Buenos Aires

The veal that turned into fish

Istanbul

The veal that turned into fish

Izmir

Eliʿezer and the carrot in Ladino

The veal that turned into fish

Yemen

Bani Hajaj

Her grandmother's story

Bashar

The shepherd who lost a sheep

Ḥaima

The non-Jew and the orchard

Ḥawlan

Story of pain and romance

Tales and proverbs

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